Buzzfeed: What is Privilege?

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Pretty visual and immediate way of putting it

 

[g5000]

The Questions:
If your parents worked nights and weekends to support your family, take one step back.
If you are able to move through the world without fear of sexual assault, take one step forward.
If you can show affection for your romantic partner in public without fear of ridicule or violence, take one step forward.
If you have ever been diagnosed as having a physical or mental illness/disability, take one step back.
If the primary language spoken in your household growing up was not english, take one step back.
If you came from a supportive family environment take one step forward.
If you have ever tried to change your speech or mannerisms to gain credibility, take one step back.
If you can go anywhere in the country, and easily find the kinds of hair products you need and/or cosmetics that match your skin color, take one step forward.
If you were embarrassed about your clothes or house while growing up, take one step back.
If you can make mistakes and not have people attribute your behavior to flaws in your racial/gender group, take one step forward.
If you can legally marry the person you love, regardless of where you live, take one step forward.
If you were born in the United States, take one step forward.
If you or your parents have ever gone through a divorce, take one step back.
If you felt like you had adequate access to healthy food growing up, take one step forward
If you are reasonably sure you would be hired for a job based on your ability and qualifications, take one step forward.
If you would never think twice about calling the police when trouble occurs, take one step forward.
If you can see a doctor whenever you feel the need, take one step forward.
If you feel comfortable being emotionally expressive/open, take one step forward.
If you have ever been the only person of your race/gender/socio-economic status/ sexual orientation in a classroom or workplace setting, please take one step back.
If you took out loans for your education take one step backward.
If you get time off for your religious holidays, take one step forward.
If you had a job during your high school and college years, take one step back.
If you feel comfortable walking home alone at night, take one step forward.
If you have ever traveled outside the United States, take one step forward.
If you have ever felt like there was NOT adequate or accurate representation of your racial group, sexual orientation group, gender group, and/or disability group in the media, take one step back.
If you feel confident that your parents would be able to financially help/support you if you were going through a financial hardship, take one step forward.
If you have ever been bullied or made fun of based on something that you can’t change, take one step back.
If there were more than 50 books in your house growing up, take one step forward.
If you studied the culture or the history of your ancestors in elementary school take one step forward.
If your parents or guardians attended college, take one step forward.
If you ever went on a family vacation, take one step forward.
If you can buy new clothes or go out to dinner when you want to, take one step forward.
If you were ever offered a job because of your association with a friend or family member, take one step forward.
If one of your parents was ever laid off or unemployed not by choice, take one step back.
If you were ever uncomfortable about a joke or a statement you overheard related to your race, ethnicity, gender, appearance, or sexual orientation but felt unsafe to confront the situation, take one step back.

 

[g5000]

I would be 14 steps ahead.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Life isn't fair. Deal with it and stop making excuses for failure.

 

[g5000]

Life isn't fair. Deal with it and stop making excuses for failure.

Says the guy 15 steps ahead.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Life isn't fair. Deal with it and stop making excuses for failure.

Says the guy 15 steps ahead.

I have no idea how many steps I would be ahead or behind because I don't obsess over this divisive bullshit and that's exactly what it is, divisive bullshit. We can't control the life we are born into, but once we are at an age where we can make our own decisions we have a great deal of control over the life we build for ourselves going forward. You can work to change your circumstances and more than likely improve them or you can sit around and bitch and whine about other people having it easier than you, but at the end of the day you'll still be a miserable, insufferable loser. Some people are born a Hilton in Beverly Hills and others are born a Jackson in Compton. That's life. Deal with it.

 

[blastoff]

Gosh, life is so unfair. Find a tall building and go splat yourself.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Pretty visual and immediate way of putting it

Wow....you've turned into the Emperor of Excuses!

Know which racial group has the highest income?

Hint:

"So what accounts for the poverty-defying trajectory of the Fujianese kids?
The answer is fourfold.


First is a cultural trait that has become a cliché in the model-minority discussion: a zealous focus on education. ....education for the next generation is close to a religion..... One recent college graduate, now a public school math teacher, told me that his mother would wake him at 5 AM to go over math problems—when he was in the first and second grade. ..
....one kindergartner’s mother said, in faltering English: “My son must go Harvard.”


a. No matter how poor they are, parents find a way to get their fourth- or fifth-graders into test-prep classes. WNYC found one Sunset Park family who put aside $5,000 for classes for their three sons out of a yearly household income of just $26,000." Brooklyn's Chinese Pioneers by Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal Spring 2014



By race

1. Asian American : $68,088[1]
2. Pacific Islands American : $ 58,859[1]
3. White American : $ 54,857[1] (includes White Hispanics)
4. Total Population : $ 51,914[1]
5. Native American : $ 38,806[1]
6. African American : $ 35,341[1] List of ethnic groups in the United States by household income - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[ClosedCaption]

Life isn't fair. Deal with it and stop making excuses for failure.

Not one person made an excuse or mentioned failure Auto Responsebot

 

[ClosedCaption]

Wow....you've turned into the Emperor of Excuses!

Are you guys reading something not there....2nd person same bs

 

[PoliticalChic]

Wow....you've turned into the Emperor of Excuses!

Are you guys reading something not there....2nd person same bs

Barnyard references in place of actual thought.

No one would ever imagine you as having any literary leanings.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Wow....you've turned into the Emperor of Excuses!

Are you guys reading something not there....2nd person same bs

Barnyard references in place of actual thought.

No one would ever imagine you as having any literary leanings.

So, you didnt see any excuses then. Thats all you have to say...you made it up.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Life isn't fair. Deal with it and stop making excuses for failure.

Not one person made an excuse or mentioned failure Auto Responsebot

Excuse for failure as well as seething envy is the entire basis of the privilege argument. Period.

 

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Life isn't fair. Deal with it and stop making excuses for failure.

Not one person made an excuse or mentioned failure Auto Responsebot

Excuse for failure as well as seething envy is the entire basis of the privilege argument. Period.

You can see words that aren't there AND emotions through the internet? When did you join the X-men?